Daily Entree

New PBJ song is pretty funny...never knew they had it in 'em.

Hey (Shut the Fuck Up Boy)- Peter Bjorn and John
Mind Dimension 2 (Soulwax Version)- Tiga
The Lock Shot- Goshi Goshi
All the Girls- Sammy Bananas
Faithful (Original Mix Par Fantom)- Fantom

Bag Raiders Remix

Bag Raiders Remix fellow mates from down under ZZZ... Nothing like some Casio piano sounds

ZZZ - Lion (Bag Raiders Remix)

Best of the Best of...

Every year (well for the last 4 or 5) when Pitchfork releases their best 50 albums/100 singles, I always feel obligated to go through all the artists and try to discover/rediscover some I've never heard of. Why?- I'm not really sure, but probably because all my other friends/journalists/music critics/anybody who listens to similar music does. Obviously my bias is towards electronic music, but im all open ears. From this years countdown Ive heard some new artists I find particularly interesting-- Air France and Portishead (rediscovered in this case) for example. However, I never view Pitchfork as the "ultimate" source of music journalism I feel alot of music people do. I still like Rolling Stone and shitty electro blogs run by Australians. After reading their review of Aoki's awful mix album, I felt like instead of bashing Aoki's poor choice in music they choose to criticize his style and mannerisms when Djing (but hey I'd really like a swig of some grey goose every now and then, right?). As much good as Pitchfork does for indie rock and under-the-radar music, they seem to carry this elitist attitude in their way about doing it. So here are a couple of track I found indirectly through Pitchfork, whether it be a song from an album or a single from the top 100 list. This years list was significantly different than last years, more electro-ish list. A lot of the dance/electronic music reflects the disco-revival of this previous year (see "Blind" and alot of Aeroplane write ups). While, yes, these songs were good and catchy, but I'd rather see more "banger"-oriented tracks associated with poor dj'ing and Steve Aoki. Yeh, the music isnt flawless and the Bloody Beetroots tracks often sound like theyre skipping a beat, but its always upbeat and ideal for a energetic, party hungry college student such as myself. I'll listen to Fleet Foxes when im 37 and have a couple kids, you know?

No Excuses- Air France
Machine Gun- Portishead
Collapsing at Your Doorstep- Air France
Strangers- Portishead
Poison Dart- The Bug
The Kramer- Wale

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borrowed a charger for a day...thank god


Cornelius (Radio Oi!)- Bloody Beetroots
Ghost- Sebastian Leger and Chris Lake
3 Minutes with Apollo Creed- Phantom's Revenge
Shove It- Santogold
Lunar Camel- Siouxie and the Banshees
Strange Overtones- David Byrne and Brian Eno
Saturated Phat Impact- Phantom's Revenge

Embedded videos FTL

My macs down for the count for awhile so im unfortunately working on a lenovo for now. I would be posting a shitload of stuff out of sheer boredom, so Ill try to get back on the mac asap. Here is a track from Francois K's essential mix which ill try to put up soon (the mix that is).

Daily Entree

Jizz in my Pants- The Lonely Island
Sussudio (extended version)- Phil Collins
Ride (Matt Hughes Remix)- Heavinz
Don Quichotte- Magazine 60
Monkey Bee (Diplo Rmx)- Monkey: Journey to the West
Goblin City (holy ghost! RMX)- Panthers
LES Artistes (XXXchange RMX)- Santogold ft. Movado
You'll Find a Way (Switch and Graeme Sinden RMX)- Santogold

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Set Me Free- Dax Riders
Ill get you ft. Jeppe (Royal Rumble Edit)- Classixx
Bolero- Fancy
The Adventures of Pippi Longstump- Fear of Tigers
Big Booya- Jess and Crabbe

"Im the hood Obama, shovelin McCain"

This dropped a few days ago, but I've been too busy bumping the living shit out of it to get to posting.

A prelude to their long-player of a similar name, "Road to Til The Casket Drops" jacks beats from, among others, "Swagger Like Us" and that crazy Ron Brownz/Jim Jones jam "Pop Champagne." Not much is different about the lyrics. That is, look for Coke references that would make Lindsay Lohan feel uncomfortable and wordplay that would make Rakim stand up and applaud. After a pair of uncharacteristically UN-groundbreaking releases, the DJ Drama-endorsed ("We Got it 4 Cheap Vol 3" and the Re-Up Gang's debut LP) brothers Pusha T and Malice seem to be back to Hell Hath No Fury form. 

Look out especially for "Affliction," as well as the two aforementioned jams.

Clipse - "Road to Til the Casket Drops Mixtape" (via Complex)

"Daily" Munchies

This an answer to KB's "Daily Entree" - hopefully it will make contributions from this author more frequent.

Say what you want about the artist formerly known as Lil Wayne. Recent releases may be plagued by gibberish and autotuning, but instant classics like "A Milli" and "Stuntin Like My Daddy" continue to shape and influence most good commercial rap (read: NOT DJ KHALED) out there. The machine-gun flow, stream of consciousness wordplay, and aggressive swagger characterize Wayne's work from his mixtape tear that led into the stellar Carter III LP last summer, a concentration of excellence that is rarely matched in Hip Hop. 

Attached are a pair of tracks that are testaments to Wayne's influence. Recently ascended deity Kanye West loops the Santogold-sampled hook throughout the Jigga's verses in the recently released "Brooklyn Go Hard," a la Da Drought 3. And heavy-hitter Polow da Don channels the spirit of "A Milli" producer Bangledesh in what sounds in many ways like a remix of the aforementioned jam.

And I had to post the Wayne track. Consider it a plea for Columbia to release it as a n-teenth single from C3.

Jay-Z ft. Santogold - "Brooklyn Go Hard" (Prod. by Kanye West) (thanks to Discobelle)

Rich Boy - "Drop" (prod. by Polow da Don) (thanks to Discobelle)

Lil Wayne ft. Juelz Santana and Fabolous - "You Ain't Got Nuthin on Me" (prod. by Alchemist)

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Here are some older soulwax tracks along with a cheesy top-20 remix and some french shit.

Black Cow- Steely Dan
Slowdance- Soulwax
Krack- Soulwax
Hot 'n' Cold (Yelle RMX)- Katy Perry
Without Reason- Pegase
Crackhead- Jess and Crabbe